Friday Flyer - September 9, 2016
First Friday Flyer of the 2016–2017 Academic Year!
Spotlight on Summer 2016: It has been an exciting summer for QuarkNet! Interest has been, understandably, up on LIGO and gravitational waves, and QuarkNet had LIGO e-Lab workshops at 10 centers. There were also four CMS e-Lab workshops, nine Cosmic e-Lab workshops (plus another coming up in late September), three CMS data workshops and one ATLAS data workshop. These are all in addition to summer research and teacher programs at the centers themselves and a very active presence at the AAPT Summer Meeting.
News from QuarkNet Central: Big news abounds . . .
First, mark the date—November 2, 2016—for International Cosmic Day, organized by our colleagues at DESY in Germany. Start planning now and get that detector fired up! It is not too early to register on Indico (no account needed) or to e-mail for more information.
Next, a note that last month a small group of QuarkNet teachers met at ICHEP in Chicago to learn more about the neutrino programs at Fermilab and try out a measurement of the size of an atomic nucleus using data from the MINERvA neutrino experiment. (Conclusion: We needed to analyze more data!) Look for more neutrino activities and opportunities from QuarkNet in the coming year.
Finally, mentors and other center leaders, QuarkNet deliverables are due Thursday, Septmeber 15, less than a week away. Here is a helpful guide and here is a document on submitting abstracts and annual reports.
Physics Experiment Roundup: Read up on more news this summer than we can fit in the flyer, compiled by Steve Schnetzer, mentor of the Rutgers QuarkNet center.
Resources: Learn more about LIGO and gravitational waves in this symmetry article. And since we are thinking on the scale of general relativity, there is yet another symmetry article, this time on the galactic neighborhood, dark matter, and dark energy.
Just for Fun: Ah, those Fermilab bison!
QuarkNet Staff:
Mark Adams: adams@fnal.gov
Ken Cecire: kcecire@nd.edu
Shane Wood: swood5@nd.edu